Improved clothes-rack



UNITED STATES PATENT OEETcE.

JOHN O. MONTIGNANI, OF ALBANY, NEV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO A. TWINER.

IM PROVED CLOTH ES- RACK.

Speeication forming part of Letters Patent No. 59,133, dated October 23, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known 'that I, JOHN O. MONTIGNANI, ofthe city of Albany, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Construct-ion of Portable Clothes-Racks, of which the following specification, with the drawings forming part` thereof, is a full and "accurate description.

pins.

Figure l exhibits a portion, being one of the ends of a frame with one of the clothes-pins attached.

However well these rails may be doweled orotherwise fastened to each other with wooden fastenings, (metal an gle-pieces or other fastenings are too costly,) they are at best weak structures, and liable to be separated by the pressure of the usual load upon the pins, if they (the pins) are made and titted'in theordinary way.

The object ot' my invention is to construct the pins in such manner as to make them assist in holding the rails together without add- -ing to the cost ot' construction ot the rack.

This Ido simply by making an alteration in the pivot or axle part of the pin.

The ordinary pin has its ends formed into cylindrical or tapering pivots, as shown at A, Fig. 2, so as to allow it to Ibe turned in between the rails when not needed for service. Such pivots, itis manifest, would, without any resistsockets.

ance, be drawn out of their sockets should the frame be broken.

My improvement consists in giving to the extremities of the pivots an outward swellwith a tapering orv rounded head, leaving a short neck next the stern ot the pin, as shown in B, Fig. 1, where a portion of the wood is shown cnt away to exhibit the forni of the pivotand its socket. This socket is bored out in the rail to only the size of the neck or narrowest part of the pivot, and when the frame is put together the pivots are forced into their The result of this will be that after the swelled head of the pin has passed the outer part of the bore the wood which has been compressed by it will expand and sur round the neck so firm] y that it will require as much force to withdraw the piu from the Wood as it did to drive it to its place-in fact, so trinly that if there were no end-pieces to the frame the weight of ordinary heavy garments upon the pins could not draw them from their sockets.

This improvement of the pins adds no expense to the construction of the racks described,whileit makes a betterbecause stronger and more durable article.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure byvLetters Patent, is

The construction of clothes-pins for portable clothes-racks by forming their axes 0r pivots as described.

J. O. MONTIGNANL Witnesses RrcHD. VARIGK DEWITT, D. W. DEWITT. 

